Sonic Smarts Tier List

[DabigRG]

So here's what tiers I came up with

Highest: Gerald, Nega, Black Doom, Eclipse,

Very High: Tails, Eggman, Mogul, Finitevus, Lyric, Ellidy, Nate, Snively, Chris, Hope, Chuck, Rotor, Relic, Wave, Omochao, Mephiles, Fuukurokov, Pickle,

High: Sally, Fiona, Tower, Perci, Fastidious, Witchcart, Naugus, Zik, Zavok, Merlina, Erazor, Rouge, Charlie, BattleLord, Breezie, Barker, Gamma, Espio, Julie-Su, Vector, Marine, Omega, Fang, Dave,

Average: Speedy, Infinite, Gemerl, Blaze, Zor, Shadow, Honey, Bark, Shahra, Tikal, Elise, Maria, Sonic, Scourge, Jet, Fink, Coconuts, Silver, Cream, Thrash, Amy, Sticks, Knuckles, Bean,

Low: Scratch, Chip, Chao, Wisps, Charmy, Zeena, Big, Zomom, Storm, Grounder,

Very Low: Zazz, Carrotia, Fockewulf, Bearenger, Ifrit, Chaos

Lowest: Iblis, Dark Gaia

 

 

 

 

[Skull Leader]

I don't think being a genius equals being smart.

Eggman is a genius in robotics, second ONLY to his grandfather Gerald, yet often he oversees little details in his schemes that lead to his eventual defeat.

Likewise Tails, who despite being a prodigy at such an early age, can make some dumb mistakes, like in SA2 which almost costed Sonic his life.

Even characters like Blaze who receive a great deal of education, can be stubborn to the point of endangering the very world she is trying to protect... something not very smart.

On the other hand, characters that don't have such great education can be smart in their own way:

Knuckles is kind of a bonehead, but on his home turf of Angel Island, he is a master at setting all kind of traps and ambushes on anyone who dares trespass his domains and has substantial knowledge of the ruins and all of their secrets.

Amy, that bubbly and silly girl, can understand people very quickly with her insight. Also, she's pretty resourceful for a normie as demostrated when she escaped the Eggcarrier, infiltrated one of Eggman's bases to look for the little bird's family as well as when she did the same to find Sonic in a secret military prision. Not to mention that, as per the IDW comic, she is the one that keeps the Resistance organized and led it when Knuckles was not in the best condition to do it.

Sonic himself is a very fast and sharp thinker who quickly adapts to any situation in a very short amount of time, if not almost instantaneous, something he needs to constantly do when he runs through all kind of obstacles without getting killed like a mach 1 daredevil.

[Gumbit]

17 hours ago, Skull Leader said:

I don't think being a genius equals being smart.

Eggman is a genius in robotics, second ONLY to his grandfather Gerald, yet often he oversees little details in his schemes that lead to his eventual defeat.

Likewise Tails, who despite being a prodigy at such an early age, can make some dumb mistakes, like in SA2 which almost costed Sonic his life.

Even characters like Blaze who receive a great deal of education, can be stubborn to the point of endangering the very world she is trying to protect... something not very smart.

On the other hand, characters that don't have such great education can be smart in their own way:

Knuckles is kind of a bonehead, but on his home turf of Angel Island, he is a master at setting all kind of traps and ambushes on anyone who dares trespass his domains and has substantial knowledge of the ruins and all of their secrets.

Amy, that bubbly and silly girl, can understand people very quickly with her insight. Also, she's pretty resourceful for a normie as demostrated when she escaped the Eggcarrier, infiltrated one of Eggman's bases to look for the little bird's family as well as when she did the same to find Sonic in a secret military prision. Not to mention that, as per the IDW comic, she is the one that keeps the Resistance organized and led it when Knuckles was not in the best condition to do it.

Sonic himself is a very fast and sharp thinker who quickly adapts to any situation in a very short amount of time, if not almost instantaneous, something he needs to constantly do when he runs through all kind of obstacles without getting killed like a mach 1 daredevil.

I think you meant that there is different kinds of intelligence .

[DabigRG]

25 minutes ago, Gumbit said:

I think you meant that there is different kinds of intelligence .

Probably.

I did take that into account when making my own list.

[Dash Speed]

Shadow imo is the smartest character in terms of practical, adept, and resourceful skills to anything. Having a specialty, scientific or acute genius is one thing, but Shadow checks off all possible types of intelligence, with insightful knowledge of those skills. Shadow specializes the most in being probably a demi polymath in almost every field Eggman and others are resprctively good in but as not inhumanley skilled(Shadow might be smarter than Sonic in combat ingenuity and Knuckles is chaos energy molding). Shadow is as scientifically compatible and tech savvy as tails, techno proficient in weapons and gadgets as Eggman, Sharp/Savvy/Acute/Quickly Adept as Sonic if not more due to being more combative and guile, cunning and perceptive as rouge, physically tatical and chaos adept if not unrivaled as Knuckles, duty driven and sensible as Silver, Responsibly introspective with emeralds as Blaze and on more than one occasion just as sane and loyal to friends and moral principles as Amy showing if he wants can have a higher degree of common sense and general rationality.

Shadow own smarts are greater than other characters uses when he display them with objectivity and his own cold buisness like drive to do anything to complete any task. It makes him saner than tails in a sense he doesn't hold back acting on his viewpoints and logic.